WILDLIFE
REPORTS
30
January 2020
Daffodils
were
flowering
in their usual profusion at the bottom of Parkside and on Park Avenue Open
Space, both near Buckingham Park, north Shoreham. This
was nearly two weeks earlier than last
year.
Daffodils
Mistletoe
A clump
of Mistletoe
was spotted in the fork of a tree in the Park Avenue Open Space. This
was the first time I have noted this parasitic plant.
Adur
Mistletoe
29
January 2020
In
Buckingham Park, north Shoreham, the first Daffodil
of the year appeared in flower.
My first
reptile
of the year was a Wall Lizard,
Podarcis
muralis,
near the carnot
wall of Shoreham
Fort in the chilly breeze.
It was
high tide in the early afternoon where two Purple
Sandpipers and a few Turnstones
rested on the wooden groyne nearest to Shoreham Harbour
entrance.
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20
January 2020
The
air pressure has levelled out around midnight
and the figure of 1050 mbs
was not attained at Shoreham
Airport registering 1048.9 at 1:00
pm. The last time the figure exceeded 1050
was in 1957 in
County Mayo, Ireland and Benbecula, Scotland.at 1050.9, and the time before
that was in 1932.
19
January 2020
The
barometer
read 31 inches
at 11:00 pm.
A
professional reading at Shoreham
Airport attained a high pressure of 1049.1 mbs. This
is an exceptionally high reading on the Fair/Very Dry scale. The all-time
English record, set in 1902, is 1053 millibars. (hPa is the
same as millibars, mbs.) Mumbles,
Swansea, recorded the highest reading at 1050.5 mbs.
Shoreham
Airport
Weather
Online
How
to Read a Barometer
Weather
Conversion Calculator
The
Met
Office recorded 1049 hPa
at 10:00 pm.
The
weather
was cold (2 °C
in the evening) and clear (no clouds) all day.
Shoreham
Weather 2020
12
January 2020
A
Peacock Butterfly was spotted in a Shoreham
garden. It must have been disturbed from hibernation on a cloudy
day. It was the first butterfly
of the year and the first local Peacock Butterfly
seen
in January on record.
Adur
Butterfly List 2020
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times
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4
January 2020
The
neophyte
Winter Heliotrope flowers
in the winter months on Adur Recreation Ground
(map).
It attracted a fly,
my first arthropod of the year. |
1 January
2020
The
first flowers of the decade, just after
midnight, were Herb Robert
by the wheelie bins. It was fine (air temperature
9°
C) at the turn of the year with a slight easterly
chill to little to no wind (Force
2). There was no bird activity to be seen
or heard in the early hours in the
dark hazy
moonless
(after midnight) sky.
In
the misty daylight, I opened the front door and immediately spotted a big
black Crow
fly into the bare branches of a Sycamore.
LINKS
Adur
2019 Reports
January
2019 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2020
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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